The front of my copy says this will be a major motion picture soon. It reads like it is the novelization of a current motion picture. Not that that is a bad thing. I frequently read novelizations. It give me more insight into the movie.
This book is classified as a thriller. Since the major set pieces are in the Chunnel beneath the English Channel, it could be called that. I found it to be more of an action adventure story. There are many bullets from different caliber weapons. There are many people shot and otherwise blown up. There is a train running from England to France that get hijacked. There are people captured, escaped, recaptures, released and just kept tied up. There are governmental officials trying to contain the situation, figuring out what is going on, helping the bad guy get way because he had been funded by them, preventing panic, keeping the Chunnel from blowing up and catching the bad guy because they don't know they were funding him. There is a ransom demand that is just a smoke screen. The bad guys do want to blow up the Chunnel for more reasons that it would make travel difficult.
Our hero, Tom Buckingham, has reasons of his own to stop the bad guys. True, it's kind of his job, but he's off duty at the moment. He's hampered because he has a very limited method to contact his team. They don't know he's in the Chunnel for a while. Once he has managed to contact his team and let them know where he is, contact is over. He has to work blind and deaf. It all gets exciting.
I liked the book. It was fast paced and exciting. Nothing was too far out of reality. It was fun to read.
I received the copy of the book I read for this review from BookishFirst.
This book is classified as a thriller. Since the major set pieces are in the Chunnel beneath the English Channel, it could be called that. I found it to be more of an action adventure story. There are many bullets from different caliber weapons. There are many people shot and otherwise blown up. There is a train running from England to France that get hijacked. There are people captured, escaped, recaptures, released and just kept tied up. There are governmental officials trying to contain the situation, figuring out what is going on, helping the bad guy get way because he had been funded by them, preventing panic, keeping the Chunnel from blowing up and catching the bad guy because they don't know they were funding him. There is a ransom demand that is just a smoke screen. The bad guys do want to blow up the Chunnel for more reasons that it would make travel difficult.
Our hero, Tom Buckingham, has reasons of his own to stop the bad guys. True, it's kind of his job, but he's off duty at the moment. He's hampered because he has a very limited method to contact his team. They don't know he's in the Chunnel for a while. Once he has managed to contact his team and let them know where he is, contact is over. He has to work blind and deaf. It all gets exciting.
I liked the book. It was fast paced and exciting. Nothing was too far out of reality. It was fun to read.
I received the copy of the book I read for this review from BookishFirst.